
Inner Navigation
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Why are we so often disoriented when we come up from the subway?
Do we really walk in circles when we lose our bearings in the wilderness?
How -- and why -- do we get lost at all?
In this surprising, stimulating book, Erik Jonsson, a Swedish-born engineer who has spent a lifetime exploring navigation over every terrain, from the crowded cities of Europe to the emptiness of the desert, gives readers extraordinary new insights into the human way-finding system.
Written for the nonscientist, Inner Navigation explains the astonishing array of physical and psychological cues the brain uses to situate us in space and build its "cognitive maps" -- the subconscious maps it employs to organize landmarks. Humans, Jonsson explains, also possess an intuitive direction frame -- an internal compass -- that keeps these maps oriented (when it functions properly) and a dead-reckoning system that constantly updates our location on the map as we move through the world. Even the most cynical city-dweller will be amazed to learn how much of this innate sense we use every day as we travel across town or around the world.
Both a scientific and a human story, Inner Navigation contains a rich assortment of real-life insights and examples of the navigational challenges we all face, no matter where or how we live. It's a book that is as provocative to ponder as it is delightful to lose yourself in. Don't worry: Erik Jonsson will help you find your bearings.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART 1: STARTING OUT
- CHAPTER 1: STRANGE HAPPENINGS
- PART 2: COGNITIVE MAPS
- CHAPTER 2: DESIGNING A WORKABLE SPATIAL SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 3: AN INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE MAPS
- CHAPTER 4: THE MENTALLY INVISIBLE STOP SIGN
- CHAPTER 5: WHO TURNED THE MADELEINE AROUND
- CHAPTER 6: FINDING CARS IN PARKING LOTS
- CHAPTER 7: A BACKWOODSMAN GOES TO TOWN
- CHAPTER 8: DISTANCE ESTIMATES IN COGNITIVE MAPS
- CHAPTER 9: PICTURES FROM AN EXPEDITION
- CHAPTER 10: THE LIFE OF TRAILS
- CHAPTER 11: THE ROLE OF LANDMARKS IN COGNITIVE MAPS
- CHAPTER 12: CROSSING A FIELD
- CHAPTER 13: WHEN THE DEAD RECKONING SYSTEM SLIPS
- PART 3: DIGGING UP OLD STORIES AND ANALYZING THEM
- CHAPTER 14: ADARI WAY-FINDING IN THE SAHARA
- CHAPTER 15: THE COGNITIVE SUN COMPASS
- CHAPTER 16: THE COGNITIVE WIND COMPASS
- CHAPTER 17: RETURNING DIRECTLY TO THE STARTING POINT
- CHAPTER 18: SINGING IN THE FOG
- CHAPTER 19: A REPORT FROM A SALTY PLACE
- CHAPTER 20: TRY TO GO STRAIGHT, BUT DON'T TRY TOO HARD
- CHAPTER 21: STRATEGIES FOR WALKING IN A STRAIGHT LINE
- CHAPTER 22: AN OLD STORY FROM A COOL PLACE
- CHAPTER 23: ABORIGINAL AND UNDERWATER WAY FINDING
- PART 4: WALKING IN CIRCLES WHEN LOST
- CHAPTER 24: THE SKOGSNUVA FAIRY TALE
- CHAPTER 25: GOING IN A CIRCLE ON THE PRAIRIE
- CHAPTER 26: GOING ASTRAY IN THE CANADIAN AND SWEDISH FORESTS
- CHAPTER 27: HOW COME WE WALK IN CIRCLES
- PART 5: REVERSALS OF ORIENTATION
- CHAPTER 28: FORDE'S LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF NATURE
- CHAPTER 29: STRANGE MORNING AWAKENINGS
- CHAPTER 30: WHEN TRAINS TAKE OFF IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
- CHAPTER 31: INDOOR MISORIENTATION
- CHAPTER 32: ANALYZING MISORIENTATIONS
- CHAPTER 33: PETERSON IN A STREETCAR IN CHICAGO
- CHAPTER 34: PROFESSOR PETERSON'S MISERY IN MINNEAPOLIS
- CHAPTER 35: TALES OF A COSMOPOLITAN LADY
- CHAPTER 36: THE TOPSY TURVY GLOBE TROTTER
- CHAPTER 37: CAUSES OF MISORIENTATION
- CHAPTER 38: THE SAN FRANCISCO EFFECT
- CHAPTER 39: CROSSING A RIDGE WITHOUT GETTING TO THE OTHER SIDE
- CHAPTER 40: DETERIORATION OF OUR SPATIAL SYSTEM IN OLD AGE
- CHAPTER 41: SPATIAL MEMORY SLIPS CAUSING REVERSALS
- CHAPTER 42: THE ROLE OF GESTALT IN MISORIENTATIONS
- CHAPTER 43: DO HUMANS HAVE A MAGNETIC SENSE?
- CHAPTER 44: SUMMING UP AND LOOKING AHEAD
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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